Testimony · Administration
Greer at trade-agenda hearing: supply chain resilience as deterrence infrastructure.
The USTR tells Senate Finance that without a robust manufacturing base, the United States has little hard power left to deter conflict.
It is critical for our economic and national security that our supply chains are resilient. If the United States does not have a robust manufacturing base and innovation economy, it will have little in the way of hard power to deter conflict.
Greer makes the doctrine's core wager explicit at the policy-agenda level: supply-chain geography is deterrence infrastructure. The "national security emergency" framing grounds preferential treatment of allied-territory production in law rather than preference, which is what makes DFC and EXIM project-finance moves on partner soil legally durable.
Reading this testimony alongside the February confirmation makes the architecture coherent. The technology coalition gets its enforcement language. Allied terrain gets its statutory rationale. American capital gets a settled rule set to underwrite against.